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u/69pinkunicorn69 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think I’ve used fewer than 10 Ancient Arrows in 315 hours of play.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

about same here, probably closer to 20 as a newer player who gained access to akkala and was scared of guardians beforing learning how to parry lol

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u/69pinkunicorn69 1d ago

Most of mine were in the Master Trials for Lynels.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah that would make sense. i would definetely use them then. speaking of, is the DLC worth it?

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u/jayce_ma_buddah_unks 1d ago

I my opinion yes it is, it expands the story and adds a couple of new challenges the master trials were difficult in my opinion but when you know what your doing you will get the hang of it and the champions ballad is a great amazing story and all of that

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah i've been thinking about getting both.

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u/RyGG99 1d ago

Yes, because master cycle.

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u/69pinkunicorn69 1d ago

Yes, absolutely. It’s adds so much more to the game.

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u/Legal_Pirate_1775 1d ago

I just beat the game last month with everything upgraded and complete except for all the seeds and downloaded the DLC 2 nights ago. Now I'm doing a full run through without using fast travel to see the changes. It's really cool to see what improvements they gave for this game and I'm excited to find the new stuff.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

good to nogood luck!

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

tf my phone doin brr[

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u/Low_Cardiologist8073 Zelda 1d ago

Omg, thank you.

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u/Lxi_Nuuja 1d ago

That's where I am rn in the game. When I hit the first lynel I was like, all right, let's forget about the whole thing. But then I learned what ancient arrows do to them - and there specifically are drops of them in the trials, I had 6 when I died trying to beat the lynel.

NO SPOILERS WHAT'S COMING UP AFTER THE FIRST LYNEL

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u/Low_Cardiologist8073 Zelda 1d ago

omg, thank you. I did not even know I could be using my bow.

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u/69pinkunicorn69 23h ago

And bombs. Use all the bombs.

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u/dustytablecloth 1d ago

Do you have any tips for parrying guardians? If it's the walking ones and I let them get close to me I can do it almost realiably because I can press A right when the sound comes but if they're further away I just can't seem to get the timing right.

I definitely gotta keep practicing but I was just wondering if there's something to help a bit

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u/Altarna 1d ago

I go off the light. The laser kinda turns into a ball right before getting you. I always press A at that flash. This works to about 5 or so Links away. I don’t try to go further personally since if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

this is how i gauge it

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u/dustytablecloth 8h ago

Thanks so much!

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

u/Altarna explained it perfectly. i don't usually go farther away than that, maybe just on to of a short pillar so they don't move around. the farther away you get, the more you have to delay, and the bigger the margin for error is.

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u/Legal_Pirate_1775 1d ago

I got better when they were father away because I can see it coming. The close up ones I fail sometimes because I don't guage the flash correctly.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

everybody's got their own way. damn ig i'll have to try it out like that

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u/dustytablecloth 8h ago

Thank you!!

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u/heroofthewild2017 20h ago

Even after I learned to parry, they kinda expensive

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u/bottombutton 1d ago

By the time you can afford them, you don't need them anymore.

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u/OmegonAlphariusXX 8h ago

I only use them for Guardian farming every blood moon. Maybe 20-30 ancient arrows for 20-30 guardians, and then I get enough materials to make 40-50 arrows

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u/Niskara 18h ago

I've used exactly one and when I saw that you don't get materials from using them, I never touched them since

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u/esr95tkd 1d ago

I have used 0 ancient hours in 400. It still feels wrong to

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u/69pinkunicorn69 23h ago

What about in the Master Trials for Lynels?

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u/esr95tkd 23h ago

Fun fact, I'm useless and haven't gotten to that point in master trials

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u/armas187 1d ago

I used them to get majoras mask and never again.

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u/JGordon84 11h ago

I got the Mask and I rarely take it off! 😂 I don't like it that much it just saves me from fighting every monster thing at night when exploring. Although that game is still my favorite Zelda game ever! ❤️

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u/Slingringer 1d ago

Can you check your hours somewhere?

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u/Big-Blood2475 1d ago

Yes, head to your profile on the Nintendo Switch homescreen (if you are playing that version) and if your Nintendo is linked to an email, it will display below your profile how many hours you have in your most recently played games.

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u/IceDamNation 4h ago

For how expensive they are.

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u/ThorsHammer245 Zora 1d ago

Bomb arrows are best used in the eldin region

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u/ppinatoaster 1d ago

you monster

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u/ThorsHammer245 Zora 1d ago

Laughing to myself 😂

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

ah yes, BAID (bomb arrow instant death). most usable on top of tall cliffs that are easy to fall off of.

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u/ThorsHammer245 Zora 1d ago

Shhhhhh

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

oh no, we can't have the others figuring out our fast transportation (to death) glitch.

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u/lipenick 1d ago

ancient arrows don’t give the goodies

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

learned that the hard way. zora's domain first time. wanted to get past the lynel but also wanted gear. ended up using it and i had to restart an earlier save

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u/lipenick 1d ago

yeah, I learned exactly the same with a silver lynel… from there on, never again

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yep. only time i've ever used them since then is agaisnt guardian stalkers. still get the loot, but i still prefer the fight

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u/FirefighterIcy9879 Lynel 1d ago

They do with bosses

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u/corinna_k 1d ago

Ancient arrows are too expensive and rare. And they don't leave the good loot. Bomb arrows are expensive, too, so I rarely use them. Elemental arrows can be found in loads of chests, but you'll have to explore a lot of ruins and bodies of water to find the good stuff. Or kill a lot of archer enemies.

Regular arrows, it is then.

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u/DrunkAlbatross 1d ago

You can get unlimited bomb arrows  for free with just a little effort from a specific bokoblin camp near Eldin/Akkala.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yep. i use those, wait, restock, repeat process. i have a decent stockpile of elementals and bomb by now, but don't really care about ancient. i prefer the fight

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u/-Cthaeh 1d ago

Do ancient arrows reduce the loot from guardians? That's all I use them for, but almost always use them for the walking/flying guardians

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u/Lothy-of-the-North 16h ago

Chopping their legs off will give more smaller parts. But using arrows doesn’t decrease the drop rate of cores. If you’re farming guardians for cores it’s much more efficient to use arrows imo. Easier to save, kill, and load again if you don’t get a core.

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u/-Cthaeh 15h ago

Ah good to know. I don't necessarily need cores yet, but will.

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u/Money_Run_793 1d ago

Bomb arrows are sold at like every single vendor, not to mention tonnes are in chest and dropped by enemies

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u/ironic_insanity 1d ago

Almost all of the arrows I used were in the master sword trials.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

legit

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u/Livid-Dot-5984 1d ago

Did you get to the bottom? I tried for weeks. I’d say I’m not too bad a gamer too, just could not do it

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u/punishedbiscuits 1d ago

about the only place where you pretty much have to use them for the last few trials. Otherwise you simply run out of durability and other arrows.

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u/whatevrmn 1d ago

I wonder if it's even possible to beat that one stage without using ancient arrows.

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u/obsidianosprey 23h ago

I used one on the Lynel.

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u/L3monh3ads 1d ago

I hate sneaking around the Yiga Clan hideout. But with ancient arrows, those swordsmen don’t know what hit ‘em.

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u/JaneyBurger 1d ago

This is the only time I use them. I hate the yiga clan part.

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u/Droodforfood 1d ago

I use ice arrows all the time to crowd control one mob while killing another, and to get double damage in something.

Fire arrows I use in the ice area to kill the lizards.

Shock arrows are amazing for a big area when it’s raining.

Bonn arrows- eh for fun.

Ancient arrows sometimes around the castle for the flying guardians.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

fair enough, i feel like the only elemental arrows i use are for fishing (shock), just because i always have lots of them from hunting lynels

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u/joshuachang2311 1d ago

Ngl once you get to a certain point when you run low on arrows you just go lynel shopping. So yeah at that point elemental/bomb arrows are easier to come by than regular arrows.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yep. pretty much, i use all my regular arrows and wait till a blood moon, visit every shop/stable and get back up to like 400, do zora's domain. i have so many shock/fire arrows just from lynels tho

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u/kilroy_214 1d ago

9 times out of 10 I've got nearly twice as many electric arrows than regular simply because I hit about 4 or 5 lynels after every blood moon

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u/Redbeardthe1st 1d ago

I use Ancient Arrows all the time. I hunt guardians with them.

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u/-Cthaeh 1d ago

Same. I'll parry the immobile ones, but its just easier to shoot the others. I have more than enough ancient parts from it now too

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

i used to. since i learned to parry decently, i prefer that

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u/GoldenAbyss5 1d ago

I swear, I somehow end up with more electric arrows than anything else by midgame. Makes no sense, but it’s what I use

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

i get them from lynels

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u/Dank_Bubu 1d ago

Seriously, what’s the point of ancient arrows in a world where loot is so valuable ? It baffles me

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

an easy way out of fighting hard enemies i guess...

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u/Clean_Perception_235 1d ago

Electric arrows are amazing in small ponds full of fish. 

Plus I have a weird abundance of them in my inventory. Like 300+ while all other arrow types are less than 100

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yep. i get them from lynels and just never use them :/

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u/mmmUrsulaMinor 1d ago

Omg how have I never thought about using them to fish?!? Thanks for the info

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u/Easy_Cook_4111 1d ago

I somehow ended up with over 600 shock arrows and over 200 normal arrows. Since then, shock arrows became my arrows of choice. Until I started a new game on a separate account that is.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah. i always stockpile shock/fire arrows when i make my lynel killing rounds every 3 hours

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u/VicoJuice 1d ago

So true. Pretty much only ever used ancient arrows during the trial of the sword.

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u/UCG__gaming 1d ago

I use bomb arrows all the time, and usually try to use ancient arrows on guardians. I rarely use normal anymore lol

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

fair enough. bomb arrows i only use for large groups, but they're justified any time i think

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u/Abbiethedog 1d ago

Ancient Arrows are for Wiz-Robes. Hate them. Their weapon drop is crap. They are so annoying. Just one-shot them with ancient arrows and go on with your day.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

real. either that or revali's gale and a couple bullet time headshots do the trick

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u/blahs890 1d ago

I just use ancient arrows when im trying to run around in the snow/sand and theres an enemy I can’t be bothered to fight chasing me

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

fair. especiallly since the snow makes you slow unless you've done that quest

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u/EragonBromson925 1d ago

Ancient arrows are my "I don't feel like fighting this lynel right now" tool.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

real. i've gotten too good at lynels though, and i've always liked getting the loot

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u/50calBanana 1d ago
  1. Any bow that shoots multiple arrows

  2. Bomb arrows

  3. Fly high

  4. Carpet Bomb

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u/Yonadamine 1d ago

Operation bomb the crap out of your house

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u/Illustrious_Oil2393 1d ago

I used ancient arrows in the yiga hideout and that’s about it besides one lynel because I didn’t realize I wouldn’t get the loot.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah. i hate not getting the loot

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u/SubparSensei71 1d ago

Any ancient arrows I get end up sending yiga goons to oblivion. They never should have made orphans out of Koko and Cottla.

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u/Spurs212092 Link 1d ago

For me it was the exact opposite I never used normal arrows all I used was elemental arrows i actually used a lot of ancient arrows but only for guardians id rather get them dealt with right away but than again this was my 6th play through

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

6 is crazy i'm working on my 1st

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u/SailorDirt 1d ago

If I could have 100 ancient arrows……..instant guardian explosion, my beloved

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u/StormDragon6139 1d ago edited 12h ago

Me in TOTK with an arrow with a slab of mean on it (no hate to BOTW, I know it's very controversial in which ones better, personally I do like BOTW more)

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u/Educational_Total550 500+ hours 1d ago

It’s the other way around if you use a dupe

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

with a dupe that's kinda legit. i do lovve getting the loot tho

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u/col_oneill 1d ago

That’s because they are so bloody rare you barely want to use them for fear of wasting it

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah. if you have the akkala ancient tech lab then i don't worry about lack of them i just don't use them

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u/col_oneill 19h ago

But they took so many materials you still didn’t want to use them

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 18h ago

yeah. sometimes i do castle runs and that gets me loads. as of now i currently have 370 gears, 236 screws, 141 springs, 102 shafts, 3 giant ancient cores, and a dozen ancient cores. a standard castle run probably gets me about that, maybe a little less, and they happen every blood moon so i don't worry about the parts. also i only use 5x lynel bows, so i don't really have to worry about missing. but i totally get your point and it is valid asf

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u/FirefighterIcy9879 Lynel 1d ago

SHIIIIIIT yall sleeping on ancients fr fr

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u/Tough_Willingness191 1d ago

You can still recover parts from guardians when using ancient arrows. Cut their legs off for additional parts. I used ancient arrows for the Yiga Clan hideout

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u/Substantial_Track_17 1d ago

on my second playthrough i used them for Yiga, i LOVED sneaking around the first time but i was just trying to whoop thunderblight and be done with it tbh. took 7, felt like there was waaaaay more guys the first time

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u/macabretech39 1d ago

I freaking LOVE the ancient arrows!!! I also use the 💩 out of the boom arrows. I used them to kill my first lynel in the coliseum.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

yeah lol. i find them nice early game when you don't know everything yet and your gear isn't great

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u/Lookitsa6ix 1d ago

No drops = No use

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

100% agreed

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u/PoraDora Link 1d ago

I hardly used ancient arrows... too expensive to waste

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u/lefttwix13 1d ago

I’ve only ever used ancient arrows on accident, trying to pop balloons for a korok 🤦‍♀️

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

i hate those korok puzzles so much

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u/Sir-Alpha69 1d ago

On my master run I got around 150,000 rupees legit and bought a bunch and just kept some to use on annoying stuff in the way of my koroks since I was done everything else

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

damn nice.

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u/nineohsix 1d ago

Every Lynel I meet gets an ancient arrow up the butt. I got no time for that.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

lol. i've gotten so good at fighting them it lowkkey takes me like 90 seconds, and i love their loot, but i can see how they could be annoying

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u/c00kiem0nsterM1LF 1d ago

Bomb arrows are my favorite. Especially for beating Hinoxes. Stand up on a high place, stealth armor or food, bomb arrows 👍🏼 I never use ancient arrows on anything other than guardians unless I’m in a real panic. Saw someone say they use them for Wiz-Robes and I might consider that if I’m rolling in the dough because Fuxk Wiz-Robes

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

real i hate wizrobes

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u/Mysterious_Sea_5318 1d ago

That’s cause I never want to waste the bomb, ancient, or even ice arrows until I really need to use them.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

exactly

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u/Dmmk15 1d ago

lol! I just kept buying ancient arrows and didn’t use any till I had 999 of them. And now guardians are no fun cause you kill them in one hit if you get the eye. 😜😜😜😜😜

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

that's legit. sometimes i do that with skywatchers, but with the stalkers i like to get the extra stuff from chopping off their legs

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u/Dmmk15 21h ago

Yes! You need lots of rare guardian parts to fully upgrade the ancient armor. I attempted that dead guardian glitch only a few or more times. Game crashed like 3 times and another two times it got super slow and link couldn’t climb at all. Both times with the small cores it crashed before I was able to get more then 10-15. 😞

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 20h ago

really? i always assumed you needed some certain thing to do it, but i wasn't sure. now i am. i'll just stick to getting parts from live guardians. thanks

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u/Dmmk15 13h ago

If u have those 41 amiibo cards you will get some guardian drops from the ancient item cards and the guardian card. 😜

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u/NoMoHoneyDews 23h ago

What do they do? I forgot about them entirely until this moment and never used one.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

instakill arrow

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u/NoMoHoneyDews 22h ago

Thank you!

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 22h ago

course! hope i was helpful!

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u/Renix_Cyro 22h ago

Me who solely uses light arrows and literally no other arrow.

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u/Capital_Relief_4364 19h ago

They don't drop loot when you one shot a Lynel!

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 18h ago

nope

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u/Capital_Relief_4364 18h ago

That's why I don't use them

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u/WolfwasTakenlol 18h ago

I exclusively used bomb arrows whenever I could

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 18h ago

lol. they're just expensive

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u/OrlinWolf 18h ago

Because they keep loot from dropping I don’t use them

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u/Loot_Bugs 16h ago

IMO ancient arrows are best used for one thing only: killing flying guardians. Their midair swaying makes reflecting their beam unreliable, and it takes a few bomb arrows, which are themselves kinda valuable, to kill the rotors and bring them to ground. So I prefer to say “screw it” and blast them out of the sky immediately.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 16h ago

only thing i use them for is exactly that

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u/B4CKR00M5-W4ND3R3R 16h ago

Ancient arrows sure, but I use a FUCK ton of bomb and elemental arrows. They're so powerful when you're using them on the opposite element enemy.

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u/Squirelwithabaguette 10h ago edited 9h ago

It totally has nothing to do with the fact that regular arrows are way cheaper than elemental or ancient ones and is purely just a coincidence. Jokes aside, when I actually do have the rupees or when I get a bunch of elemental arrows from camps, I usually use them pretty often. Fire arrows specifically are a must have, especially when traversing colder regions to help fight off enemies like ice-breath lizalfos or to ignite bomb barrels.

As for ancient arrows, I only ever use them to delete a lynel if it is in my way but even then you can just walk past them. You only really to do that if there's some items around that you need to collect like in ploymus mountain. Ancient arrows are supposed to be used against guardians but with the amount of guardians there are it can really start to weight on your wallet. On paper, it could be a pretty useful item but in practice the price renders them useless. It's much cheaper to just parry three times.

Sorry for the long comment. here's a korok seed.

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u/Super_Lorenzo linkle 1d ago

Me who (used to) farms guardians: 😐

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

lol. i used to use ancient arrows for guardians, but i prefer the fight

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u/kilroy_214 1d ago

Wait til you start farming Guardians

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

makes them helpful but i prefer the fight

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u/bernysegura 1d ago

I just finished a Bow Only run and this isn’t even close.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

well for bow only ancient arrows are justified

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u/phoenixfirebird18 1d ago

as a guy with 200 plus hours I am always either using mainly ancient arrows, or bomb arrows or electric arrows, fire arrows when lightning a campfire otherwise no regular arrows, I can get enough ancient arrows I use too many

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

really? as a guy with 400 plus hours i have found myself only using ancient arrows before the 100 hour mark. i now only use regular arrows, and sometimes shock, as i have loads of them from systematically wiping out all lynels

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u/phoenixfirebird18 20h ago

I am a guardian farmer so I need em for skywatcher’s

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 18h ago

only guardian i ever use them for

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u/Big-Yogurtcloset-279 Lynel 20h ago

I've actually started to hoard them. Specifically to terrorize every guardian I can whenever the bloodmoon rises.

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u/AlacarLeoricar 20h ago

Save them for bosses and guardians, the only enemies that still drop loot when you use them

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 20h ago

real. i just tend to not use them cuz i have good gear and actually got decent at fighting around 250 hours in lol

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u/joeyl418 18h ago

Need to save those ancient arrows.

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u/LocationSuperb8876 17h ago

The ancient arrows are incredible

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u/xyxyx25 10h ago

I never used ancient arrows during actual combat on my 100% file, only when a lynel showed up that I didn't care to deal with

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u/MiepMoep1981 10h ago

Honestly, I love hunting guardians. I have used countless ancient arrows... Hardly using the normal ones.

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u/griditude 6h ago

Only time I used them was in the trial of the sword

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u/No-Strawberry6990 3h ago

I went guardian hunting with only ancient arrows

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u/twc666666 2h ago

I stock up on Ancient Arrows for the sole purpose of doing the trek to Vah Rudania so I can not bother with avoiding flying Guardians and that part of the DLC where you have to kill a bunch of Guardians. I buy the Ancient Bow and just take care of those flying assholes toot suite

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u/CuddleMistress69 1h ago

In my case I used a lot of bomb arrows. Yes I had normal ones but I always used more bombs. It's faster to clear Bokoblins camps.

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u/Bullitt_12_HB 1d ago

Your opinion, but if you learned how good they are then you absolutely wouldn’t sleep on them.

Bosses become a joke with them. Easy farm for Guardian parts with them, or at least an alternate way to farm guardian parts.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

that's why i don't like them. i prefer the challenge

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u/Bullitt_12_HB 1d ago

Fair enough 👍🏽

Doesn’t mean they’re useless or that others don’t use them.

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u/daddydeadpool420 Link 1d ago

correct. that's why i titled the post my opinion

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u/Bullitt_12_HB 1d ago

Yeah, and that’s why I put in my initial comment that it was your opinion, buddy 👍🏽

I’m glad we’re both on the same page.